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 Gov. Jay Inslee Wednesday said Washington’s economy will likely reopen in phases once state officials believe society can safely function amid the new coronavirus.

That plan could look something like a reverse process of how the state shut down in March in response to the outbreak of COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, the governor said in a news conference on the virus.

“This transition will not be a light switch, on and off, it will be a dial,” said Inslee. “And we will dial it up and down, as the data suggest and as our community responds.”